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Meanings of Terce:

noun

A service forming part of the divine office of the western christian church, traditionally said (or chanted) at the third hour of the day (i.e. 9 a.m.).

Usage examples:

The order of service for noonday may be used (with appropriate choices from the options for lessons…

Meanings of Tercels:

noun

The male of a hawk, especially a peregrine or a goshawk.

Meanings of Tercentenaries:

noun

The three-hundredth anniversary of a significant event.

Usage examples:

Events arranged to mark the library's tercentenary

adjective

Relating to a three-hundredth anniversary.

Usage examples:

His tercentenary year

Meanings of Tercentenary:

noun

The three-hundredth anniversary of a significant event.

Usage examples:

Events arranged to mark the library's tercentenary

adjective

Relating to a three-hundredth anniversary.

Usage examples:

His tercentenary year

Meanings of Tercentennials:

noun

The three-hundredth anniversary of a significant event; a tercentenary.

Usage examples:

Yale university has much to be proud of, and now this distinguished university is celebrating it's …

adjective

Relating to a three-hundredth anniversary; tercentenary.

Meanings of Terces:

noun

A service forming part of the divine office of the western christian church, traditionally said (or chanted) at the third hour of the day (i.e. 9 a.m.).

Usage examples:

The order of service for noonday may be used (with appropriate choices from the options for lessons…

Meanings of Tercet:

noun

A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent triplet.

Usage examples:

Both albums are rife with lyrical references to rolling hills, trees, creeks, dirty knees and breez…

Meanings of Tercets:

noun

A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent triplet.

Usage examples:

Both albums are rife with lyrical references to rolling hills, trees, creeks, dirty knees and breez…

Meanings of Terebinth:

noun

A small southern european tree which was formerly a source of turpentine and galls for use in tanning.

Usage examples:

But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stum…

Meanings of Terebinthaceae:

noun

A small southern european tree which was formerly a source of turpentine and galls for use in tanning.

Usage examples:

But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stum…

Meanings of Terebratulid:

noun

A brachiopod of a mainly fossil order that originated in the devonian, having a short pedicle and a calcareous loop supporting the tentacles.

Usage examples:

The present results suggest a more critical approach to ascertaining the meaning and relevance of t…

Meanings of Terence:

proper noun

(c.190–159 bc), roman comic playwright; latin name publius terentius afer. his six surviving comedies are based on the greek new comedy; they are marked by more realism and a greater consistency of plot than the works of plautus.

Meanings of Teres:

noun

Either of two muscles passing below the shoulder joint from the scapula to the upper part of the humerus, one ( teres major ) drawing the arm towards the body and rotating it inwards, the other ( teres minor ) rotating it outwards.

Meanings of Terete:

adjective

Cylindrical or slightly tapering, and without substantial furrows or ridges.

Usage examples:

As the leaf grows and becomes terete, the older leaf embraces it by the increasingly curved sheath.

Meanings of Terga:

noun

A thickened dorsal plate on each segment of the body of an arthropod.

Usage examples:

However the most important feature is undoubtedly the dorsal morphology of the tergum 13 with its t…

Meanings of Tergal:

adjective

Relating to the terga of an arthropod.

Usage examples:

In places, portions of the sternites can be seen where the tergal cuticle has broken away.

Meanings of Tergite:

noun

(in an insect) a sclerotized plate forming the tergum of a segment.

Usage examples:

These muscles are arranged as a series of parallel muscle fibers from the lateral edge of the dorsa…

Meanings of Tergites:

noun

(in an insect) a sclerotized plate forming the tergum of a segment.

Usage examples:

These muscles are arranged as a series of parallel muscle fibers from the lateral edge of the dorsa…

Meanings of Tergiversated:

verb

Make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate.

Usage examples:

The more she tergiversated, the greater grew the ardency of the reporters for an interview

Meanings of Tergiversation:

noun

The act of making statements that are different from each other, so that they cannot both be true

Usage examples:

His tergiversations suggest a mind uncomfortable with either a western or an eastern identity.

Meanings of Teriyakis:

noun

A japanese dish consisting of fish or meat marinated in soy sauce and grilled.

Usage examples:

There are just under a dozen items to choose from at lunch, from chicken or beef teriyaki or udon, …

Meanings of Term-of-endearment:

phrase

A kind or friendly name to call someone

Usage examples:

It was certainly meant as a term of endearment., i try to use the patient's name rather than a gene…

Meanings of Termagancy:

noun

Especially with reference to a woman: the quality or state of being bad-tempered or overbearing; violence of temper or disposition.

Meanings of Termagant:

noun

A harsh-tempered or overbearing woman.

Usage examples:

Your highness, sorry about the shrieking termagant!

Meanings of Termagantish:

adjective

Resembling, or of the nature of, a termagant.